The MacStories Things Giveaway for Mac, iPad and iPhone

That’s right folks, thanks to Cultured Code we’ve got three copies of Things up for grabs. For those who don’t know, Things is simply the best GTD application available on the Mac, iPhone and iPad, featuring an elegant and beautiful interface and a feature set which allows you to quickly enter and organize your tasks in areas, tags, people and projects.

Giveaway details:

  • 1 copy of Things for Mac, our review here (worth €49.95)

  • 1 U.S. promo code of Things for iPhone (worth $9.99)

  • 1 U.S. promo code of Things for iPad, our review here (worth $19.99)

We’ll pick up one winner for each version on Friday, May 14th. To enter the contest, be sure to follow @macstoriesnet on Twitter and leave a comment here including your Twitter username and the reason you’d like to win a copy of Things. Have you tried other GTD apps before? Do you think Things can fit in your workflow? Just let us know.

As always, good luck!

Verizon Making an iPhone Mobile Campaign?

Once a company starts making advertisements for a product, more than likely, they’re going to carry it. And Verizon is rumored to be making lots of sexy ads for the iPhone, which probably feature Verizon’s infamous coverage map and something along the lines of, “The iPhone. Now in More places.” Ads firm Landor Associates also calls the next iPhone, “the iPhone HD.” So folks, we’ve only got a month until WWDC, and hopefully we’ll be filled in with Apple’s next move in the smartphone marketplace.

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Steve Jobs, Alive and Well One Year Later

Bloomberg Businessweek is reporting that Steve Jobs is in fact, “Fully operational” one year after his liver transplant. It only took Businessweek to make me realize just how lively Jobs has been the past few months, from the release of the iPad, to the campaign against Flash. Also noted is his recent endorsement of a Californian law that promotes organ donations, as well detailing the specifics of Jobs’ previous condition and surgery. While most it reiterates what we already knew, this just goes to show that Apple investors and customers should rest easy - Steve’s not going anywhere for a long time.

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Square Mobile Payment System Going Live

If you’ve ever heard about Square Mobile, they’re offering one of the coolest payment systems I’ve seen in a while. Take a white plastic cube, slip it in to your iPhone, iPod touch, or Android device’s headphone jack, swipe your card, and Square takes care of the rest. Without need for a merchant account or expensive fees, Square is something I’d love to implement somehow - it’s going completely online sometime this week (previously, its availability was limited). Check out the video after the break.

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iPad Wifi Issues Will Be Fixed With a Software Update

Remember when there was so much talking about the iPad having problems with wifi connections and disconnecting from networks?  Some U.S. colleges even banned the device due to these problems with wifi. Apple has finally updated a support document about the issue including some “workarounds” to get wireless connections working properly on the iPad:

- Verify your Wi-Fi router firmware is up to date.

- If your router’s security encryption is WEP, try WPA or WPA2, as WEP can cause intermittent disconnects with the iPad which requires retyping a password.

- Make sure the iPad screen brightness is not at the lowest level.

- Obtain a new IP address by going into Settings, Wi-Fi, accessing the settings of the current network, and choosing “Renew Lease.”

- Finally, if these steps do not work, users are recommended to try turning Wi-Fi off and back

Also, the issues will be fixed with a Software Update. I can see OS 3.2.1 coming by the WWDC.

Adobe Called, They got Flash Working

While I generally wouldn’t talk about the possible triumphs of Android on an Apple site, I have to rightfully follow up with this little piece that happens to mention Adobe’s failtastic display of Flash. Deep in the labs of the Adobe underworld, that infamous Nexus One is finally running flash. Personally, I’m intrigued by how they went solving interactions between the browser and flash content - you have to initiate flash content through a gesture.

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Apple Tethered to AT&T for Five Years

While AT&T won’t let iPhone owners in the States tether their MacBooks to their iPhones, Apple has been tethered to AT&T for quite a while now. Apple’s contact with AT&T is rumored to last five years, meaning we won’t see anything happening with Verizon for a while. But here’s the kicker: Apple & AT&T may have accidentally invalidated this contact by informing customers that their contact was only exclusive for two years, and had to sign up for an additional three years to keep using the iPhone. Ooops.

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Canonical’s Unity looks like a great Netbook OS for Mac Users

I love linux distros. Being fond of the recently released Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (which has replaced Windows XP on my aging Compaq desktop), Unity looks like an excellent Netbook OS for those who still want the Mac “touch and feel” without the mess or performance of Windows 7 Starter or XP editions. For all you netbook toting users who want to run Snow Leopard but can’t, hopefully we’ll start seeing machines soon sporting this nifty, lightweight OS.

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Ars Technica thinks Mac Developers Need Love Too

Usually I’m Gung Ho for anything Apple does, but after shafting Mac developers from the Apple Design Awards, I felt that Apple had removed an important element from the community. Ars Technica apparently feels the same, and will host their own Ars Design Awards specifically for those developing for OS X. Apple, if you aren’t going to recognize great developers and designers for their work, somebody else will.

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